Comparison of free software hosting facilities
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A comparison of online hosting facilities which serves free software.
[edit] General software
Name | Website | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Arch | TFS | notes | |
BerliOS | http://www.berlios.de | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
Freepository | http://freepository.com | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Freepository provides free and paid accounts. Free accounts are CVS-based. | |
Gna.org | http://gna.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Project by the Free Software Foundation France | |
GNU Savannah | http://savannah.gnu.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Project by the Free Software Foundation | |
Novell Forge | http://forge.novell.com/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
SourceForge | http://sourceforge.net/ | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Wiki features are a courtesy of FlexWiki. | |
Sarovar | http://sarovar.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Tigris.org | http://www.tigris.org/ | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | Restricted to collaborative software development tools | |
http://code.google.com/hosting/ | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | New service from Google as of Aug 04 2006 | ||
CodePlex | http://www.codeplex.com/ | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
[edit] Specific requirements or preferences
Name | Website | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Arch | notes |
Alioth | http://alioth.debian.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Preference for Debian related projects. |
Drupal | http://drupal.org/project/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Drupal related projects. |
GBorg | http://gborg.postgresql.org/ | No | Yes | ? | ? | Only for PostgreSQL related projects. |
Gna! | https://gna.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only for free software (GPL-compatible) projects. |
JabberStudio | http://jabberstudio.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Jabber related projects. |
JavaForge | http://javaforge.com/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Java related projects. |
JoomlaForge | http://forge.Joomla.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Joomla third party development |
LuaForge | http://luaforge.net/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Lua related projects |
mozdev | http://www.mozdev.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Mozilla related projects. |
pgfoundry | http://www.pgfoundry.org/ | No | Yes | ? | ? | Only for PostgreSQL related projects |
RubyForge | http://rubyforge.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Ruby related projects |